Hi Scott! > -----Original Message----- > From: groups, freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 4:06 AM > To: LEAF > Subject: Re: [leaf-user] [RFE] LEAF on CD - other > improvement(s)? [SysLinux/ISOLinux] > > I'm of the mindset that the way the LEAF CD-image is > presently constructed is unnecessarily obtuse. > > Regarding BuC 2.4.1 in particular (though I recall that > recent versions of BuC-from-CD all work this way): > > The LEAF ISO is bootable and this is effected via a > floppydisk image that is stored on the CD (bootdisk.ima). > This virtual diskette then boots the LEAF system (curiously, > identical copies of syslinux.cfg and LEAF.cfg exist on the > floppy image as well as on the CD - which copy does one > adjust to effect a change?!?!)
[snip] > A very sweet setup, IMO. > > So my RFE here would be: would the powers-that-be wish to > adjust the boot method of the CD so as to obviate the need > for a bootable floppy image to exist on the CD? IMO this > would reduce confusion about how things chain to one another > in the boot sequence, and perhaps be a more easy installation > for new users (e.g. no need to rebuild bootdisk.ima to effect > changes, and then burn a new CD)? You can find my original HOWTO on booting Bering directly off a CD-ROM using isolinux here: http://www.leaf-project.org/doc/bk04ch10.html Even though these instructions are a bit out of date, they can be used to create a proper setup. Just use a initrd cdrom enabled and you'll be fine. However, this approach has some minor drawbacks in which there are some BIOS that can't deal with booting El-Torito boot sectors (which is the method I'm using here). Therefore as some of the Bering-uClibc Team members could not effectively use the isolinux booting method, the change to 1.44 floppies was made. Personally I kinda lost interest is using CD-ROM to boot as all my firewalls now use CompactFlash technology. > > I'm in the process of creating a FreeDOS bootable diskette > image to provide unencumbered (re licencing), distributable > DOS image that can be used in conjunction with the > isolinux-booting LEAF CD. > > I'm also happy to provide my mkisofs 'recipe' since the > danged thing took some time to get working correctly. > > Anyone interested? Powers-that-be? > > (FWIW "BCDW" is not GPL'd but /is/ freeware that has no > licencing/distribution encumbrances that I can ascertain.) > > scott; canada What I can do probably (but not right away) is make a small addenda to my original HOWTO, supporting all changes that were made to Bering-uClibc and that affect boot. my €0.02 Luis Correia Bering uClibc Team Member PGP Fingerprint: BC44 D7DA 5A17 F92A CA21 9ABE DFF0 3540 2322 21F6 Key Server: http://pgp.mit.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
